Xinong Xie, Professor, PhD supervisor at China University of Geosciences, is the director of the Hubei Key Laboratory of Marine Geological Resources. He has published more than 200 papers in various journals including more than 70 SCI papers (30 first author and corresponding author papers). His teaching disciplines include the dynamic analysis of continental margin basins, sedimentology, structural geology, basin hydrodynamics, and hydrocarbon accumulation